Patrick Lane and Lorna Crozier read poems from among their many poetry books including Last Water Song from Harbour Publishing and The Blue Hour of the Day published by McClelland & Stewart. We talk about the ways of “seeing”–how these ways might be determined without our even knowing it in our formative years. Patrick looks very close-up to things, and Lorna‘s vision requires […]
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Khaled Mattawa reads from his latest poetry collection Amorisco (2008) published by Ausable Press. We also hear selections from two books of his translations of Iman Mersal and Joumana Haddad–and talk about how working in translation impacts and informs his own poetry. We talk about his early years in Libya and what it is like to make a
From the archive: 2008 Amy Hempel reads from The Collected Stories (Scribner 2007). We talk about writing short shorts and writing prose poems–and about having that first line–how it shows you the way to the story. We hear a poem called “Sing to It.” And we talk about dogs. http://beanball.wcbn.org/rss/Living_Writers/wcbn-living_writers-2008-12-03-161501-EST.mp3 Download Audio Original airdate: December 3,
John Marshall reads from his book Meaning a Cloud published by Oberlin Press. We talk about chapbooks and broadsides, James Tate, and the shop in Seattle he co-owns with his wife–Open Books: A Poem Emporium. We also talk about how to structure a book that spans several decades of poems–and the marketplace. Download Audio For more
From the archives: 2008 C.D. Wright reads from her book of poems Rising, Falling, Hovering (Copper Canyon Press). We talk about misery and love, “making it up,” and what it means to be an American Artist. http://beanball.wcbn.org/rss/Living_Writers/wcbn-living_writers-2008-04-16-161501-EDT.mp3 Download Audio Photo credit: Forrest Gander Original airdate: April 16, 2008
textsound: an online audio publication: two of the founding editors, Anna Vitale and Laura Wetherington, join T in the studio. We talk about textsound’s mission and vision–and the experimental idea. We also talk about the online arts community, the Scandanavian connection and the art of arranging sound in journal form. Download Audio
